Friday, 15 August, 1997 03:33

I got up at 02:30 for some ungodly reason. I know that I haven't had enough sleep, since I went to sleep about 24:00. I was thinking that I was hungry, so I ate a bowl of generic corn flakes. MMMmm mmm. Now I know that I'm not hungry, so I can look for other reasons...

Karen and Tyler and I went out to Applebee's to eat, I had my usual Bourbon Street steak. I have noticed that I tend to stick to the tried and true stuff when I eat, and I wonder if that is maybe indicative of my personality? And if it is, what is it saying?

Experience is a good teacher? I'm in a rut? I'm afraid to try new things? I know what I want and I'm sticking to it? I have no imagination? I've eaten bad food and I'll stick with stuff that I know is good?

In other aspects of my life, I'm the same way. I've had the same wife for thirteen years (anniversary is Monday), the same kids, the same family... O'wait, I guess everyone does that...

I like to keep the same cars, the same house, the same furniture... I even stuck with DOS way after it ran outa gas. But I did jump on WIN95 along with the rest of the world, back in '95... and I do love new computers.

And before you say that this is an aspect of getting old, let me remind you that I've been this way all of my life. I'm a one-car, one-truck, one-guitar, one-woman man.

Some people might say that this is mighty boring. For them, maybe. For me, it's really comfortable. I'm happy, why should anyone else care?

I do believe that I can go back to sleep now...

So... we will be doing chores and suchlike. I always feel so much better when I can actually get stuff done, and there is a lot of stuff to do around here. I would post a list, but it would be just as boring as our shopping list, so I won't.

Lisa came by last night, it was really nice to see her. She and Tyler got here after the storm (we had a really beautiful lightning-and-thunder-storm yesterday evening!) and she picked up some mail and we talked a while and she checked her email, since she is, for the moment, computerless. I really miss her being here, but life is so much simpler with just Karen and I here, I really like that, too. Y' just can't have everything that you want.

Karen just came in to ask me if I wanted another cup of coffee. She hesitated a bit, then said, "You almost look like a real writer, sitting there at the keyboard with a cigarette dangling out of your face." Then the puzzled look on my face prompted her to say, "You know: a real writer, one that makes money!"

Karen rented some movies last night, and we watched The Rock.

I am not a movie fan; those people get very little money from me. But there are a lot of people out there to take up the slack...

I was impressed by Sean Connery, as usual. If I could be said to have a hero, or rather someone whom I would want to emulate, it is him. Well, not him, maybe, but the roles that he plays. Has he ever made a real dud movie? Not that I've seen, anyway, though I know that I've missed a bunch.

I am not a big movie-goer, I think that I've mentioned that before. I still have two free tickets that I've had since, oh, last March. The few times that I really want to see something, I have to work or do something else important like that. So I wait for it to come out in video, and while I wait I forget about it. The Rock is an exception; I have read good reviews of it in the journals that I keep up with. There are eight or ten others, too, that I want to see, some of them going back five years or more. I will recognize the titles when I go to the video store.... which only happens every six months or so.

It would be fair to say that I am not a movie fan; those people get very little money from me. But there are a lot of people out there to take up the slack...

And...